On Wed, 17 May 2006, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Paul Howarth (paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
Of course it is, but that doesn't help all the legacy/other distros that
don't set the default in this way. If someone wants to rebuild a
buildroot-less SRPM on such a system, they'll need to edit the spec file
or their rpmmacros file, which in the case of end users trying to get a
package working on their system is a whole extra layer of hassle.
I'm all for setting a default buildroot in rpm but think that there
should be a substantial grace period before the BuildRoot: tags are
removed from packages en masse.
So it could be something that's done in development going forward only;
I don't see that as a big issue.
You could argue that %clean is superfluous spec file noise as well.
Ah yes, that - while we're at it lets get rid of that noise as well.
A related item, although not quite that straightforward, is 'rm -rf
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT' at beginning of %install. There are some special cases
where package build is broken in the sense that it installs stuff on the
build-stage, OOo being a notable example. But those could be handled with
a special --no-clean flag to %install or something.
- Panu -
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